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- One machine, two worlds: a bird-inspired robot that dives, then flies back outEngineers at MIT and EPFL built a 250-gram flapping robot that swims underwater and launches itself into the air — a step toward cheaper ocean sampling.
- The last of its kind: botanists secure a future for a nearly vanished treeFrom a single wild individual on a Chilean island, hundreds of seeds reached Britain — and eight seedlings now offer hope.
- Tailored viruses calm the inflammation in Crohn's diseaseA Canadian research team uses a bacteriophage to disarm disease-driving gut bacteria — without harming the rest of the microbiome.
- Euclid telescope uncovers 31 ancient quasars, two from the universe's first 670 million yearsA space-based survey has more than doubled the known count of these ancient cosmic beacons, including two that shone when the cosmos was barely 5% of its present age.
- MIT's plate-sized robot boats assemble themselves into floating structuresA swarm called FloatForm latches into bridges and platforms, breaks apart and rebuilds — steered almost entirely by the boats themselves rather than a central computer.
- Long COVID: Trial finds a small benefit from common drugs — and underscores the value of specialist careIn a large UK drug trial for long COVID, an antihistamine and a gout medicine eased fatigue slightly; above all, the study showed how much targeted specialist care can achieve.
- Iron Powder as Long-Term Storage: Retrofitted Coal Plants Could Buffer Green Power for WeeksA KIT study finds that a CO2-neutral iron cycle could complement the hydrogen economy while reusing existing power-plant infrastructure.
- Streaming customers can cancel personalised subscriptions – EU court brings clarityThe European Court of Justice has ruled that streaming services offering personalised recommendations may no longer deny their customers the 14-day right of withdrawal across the board.
- From Rivals to Partners: Saxony and Sardinia Want to Share the Einstein TelescopeOn 17 July the two regions will seal a joint bid in Nuoro that would spread the billion-euro gravitational-wave detector across two sites.
- Child benefit will soon arrive automatically – the Bundestag scraps the initial applicationFrom 2027 the family benefits office is to trigger child benefit itself after a birth; around 300,000 applications a year will fall away.
- Hamburg's electricity grid fees fall as operator invests heavily in hydrogenAs the city-owned Hamburger Energienetze pours record sums into power and hydrogen lines, electricity grid fees for households are dropping in 2026 – though gas costs are rising.
- After Two Decades, the First Nuclear Clock TicksTwo research teams in Vienna and Beijing have independently built the first running timekeepers that read the time from inside an atom's nucleus.
- BAföG Reform: Coalition Secures Higher Rates and Clearer Rules for StudentsAfter months of dispute, Germany's governing parties agree on higher student aid, more reliable rules and a simpler application process – though one part will arrive later than planned.
- An Hour-Long Flicker May Reveal a Moon-Mass Black Hole Adrift in the Milky WayAustralian astronomers report a brief microlensing event whose best explanation is a primordial black hole about three times the mass of the Moon — and a promising new way to probe dark matter.
- Virtual Body Images as an Aid in Anorexia TherapyA Tübingen research team is testing a VR environment in which patients can experience themselves in a healthy, normal-weight body early in treatment – and the first results give cautious grounds for optimism.
- China's Tianwen-2 Returns the First Close-Up View of Earth's Quasi-MoonThe sample-return probe has reached the tiny companion asteroid Kamo'oalewa and sent home an image that is already sharpening the debate over where the rock came from.
- Cicada Eggs from a French Military Base Could Restore Britain's Lost Summer SongConservationists have carried 20 egg-bearing bracken stems from Brittany to Hampshire, the latest step in a slow effort to return the New Forest cicada to England after nearly three decades of silence.
- Australia and India Finalise Uranium Supply Deal for Nuclear PowerAfter more than a decade of delays, the two nations signed an administrative arrangement in Melbourne that clears the way for regular shipments of Australian uranium for India's civilian nuclear programme.
- On Bleak Lincolnshire Fields, a Wager That Nature Can Pay Its WayA former arable estate near Grantham is being handed back to wild processes in a bid to prove that restoring nature can be a viable business, not just a cost.
- Harvard's Repurposed Chip Writes DNA in Water, Not SolventsA semiconductor once built to eavesdrop on neurons now synthesizes 64 DNA strands in parallel using only electric currents and water, pointing toward greener, more accessible genetic manufacturing.
- Heidelberg Physicists Unite Two Long-Separate Pictures of Quantum ImpuritiesA team at Heidelberg University has built a single framework that reconciles the mobile Fermi polaron with the heavy, near-immobile impurity, closing a decades-old gap in quantum many-body theory.
- UK Ethics Commission Sets Out a Plan for a Complete Lobbying RegisterA report from the new Ethics and Integrity Commission recommends that every attempt to influence government and officials be publicly registered – from formal meetings to WhatsApp messages.
- Elusive Goblin Shark Filmed Alive in Its Deep-Sea Home for the First TimeTwo chance encounters in the Central Pacific — one on archived expedition video, one on a baited deep-sea camera — show the rare "living fossil" thriving in the wild and greatly expand where it is known to live.
- AI Gives Water Researchers a Common Yardstick for Molecular OrderResearchers at the University of Osaka trained a neural network to compare 16 rival measures of water's molecular structure and reveal which best capture its strange behavior.